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We analyse the Kitaev honeycomb model, by means of the Berry curvature with respect to Hamiltonian parameters. We concentrate on the ground-state vortex-free sector, which allows us to exploit an appropriate Fermionisation technique. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Francesco Bascone , Luca Leonforte , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Angelo Carollo

The Berry curvature is a fundamental concept describing topological order of quantum systems. While it can be analytically tractable in non-interacting systems, numerical simulations are necessary in interacting systems. We present a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-10 Arata Yamamoto

Analytical calculations and micromagnetic simulations are used to determine the Berry curvature and topological Hall effect (THE) due to conduction electrons in small ferromagnetic particles. Our focus is on small particles of…

The Berry connection and curvature are key components of electronic structure calculations for atoms and molecules in magnetic fields. They ensure the correct translational behavior of the effective nuclear Hamiltonian and the correct…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Laurens D. M. Peters , Tanner Culpitt , Erik I. Tellgren , Trygve Helgaker

We present a quantized non-Abelian Berry phase for time reversal invariant systems such as quantum spin Hall effect. Ordinary Berry phase is defined by an integral of Berry's gauge potential along a loop (an integral of the Chern-Simons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 T. Fukui , T. Fujiwara

The Berry curvature provides a powerful tool to unify several branches of science through their geometrical aspect: topology, energy bands, spin and vector fields. While quantum defects -- phase vortices and skyrmions -- have been in the…

The quantum geometric tensor, which has the quantum metric and Berry curvature as its real and imaginary parts, plays a key role in the transport properties of condensed matter systems. In the nonlinear regime, the quantum metric dipole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Xu Yang , Brian Skinner

Phases arising from cyclic processes are fundamental in physics, bridging quantum and classical domains and providing deeper insights into the topology and dynamics of physical systems. This study investigates the accumulation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kazi T. Mahmood , M. Arif Hasan

Ideal Chern insulating phases arise in two-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. They are characterized by having nearly-flat bands, and a uniform quantum geometry -- which combines the Berry curvature and quantum metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Christian Northe , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jonathan Sturm , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We take as a starting point an expression for the quantum geometric tensor recently derived in the context of the gauge/gravity duality. We proceed to generalize this formalism in such way it is possible to compute the geometrical phases of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Javier Alvarez-Jimenez , Aldo Dector , J. David Vergara

Two-dimensional materials are a fertile ground for exploring quantum geometric phenomena, with Berry curvature and its first moment, the Berry curvature dipole, playing a central role in their electronic response. These geometric properties…

We show how Berry phase can be used to construct an ultra-high precision quantum thermometer. An important advantage of our scheme is that there is no need for the thermometer to acquire thermal equilibrium with the sample. This reduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. Martin-Martinez , A. Dragan , R. B. Mann , I. Fuentes

Weinvestigate the topological phase transition of Kitaev spin liquid in an external magnetic field by calculating the Berry curvature and the Fubini-Study metric. Employing Jordan-Wigner transformation and effective perturbative theory to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Meng-Meng Lu , Zheng-Chuan Wang

We obtain the band structure of a particle moving in a magnetic spin texture, classified by its chirality and structure factor, in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. This rich interplay leads to a variety of novel topological phases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy M. McCormick , Nandini Trivedi

We investigate two kinds of topological structures (sphere and torus) spanned by the controlled parameters of a driven two-level system's Hamiltonian, and consider the connection between the structures and the system's dynamics. We discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Ze-Lin Zhang , Ping Xu , Zhen-Biao Yang

Quantum geometry - the geometry of electron Bloch wavefunctions - is central to modern condensed matter physics. Due to the quantum nature, quantum geometry has two parts, the real part quantum metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature.…

Quantum geometry and topology are fundamental concepts of modern condensed matter physics, underpinning phenomena ranging from the quantum Hall effect to protected surface states. The Berry curvature, a central element of this framework, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Giancarlo Soavi , Jan Wilhelm

Geometrical properties of energy bands underlie fascinating phenomena in a wide-range of systems, including solid-state materials, ultracold gases and photonics. Most famously, local geometrical characteristics like the Berry curvature can…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-20 Martin Wimmer , Hannah M. Price , Iacopo Carusotto , Ulf Peschel

We propose a pair of the complex Berry curvatures associated with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its Hermitian adjoint to reveal new physics in non-Hermitian systems. We give the complex Berry curvature and Berry phase for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Annan Fan , Guang-Yao Huang , Shi-Dong Liang

The complete geometry of quantum states in parameter space is characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, which contains the quantum metric and Berry curvature as the real and imaginary parts, respectively. When the quantum states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Hai-Tao Ding , Yan-Qing Zhu , Peng He , Yu-Guo Liu , Jian-Te Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu